Maggie Chen (born Chen Wenjun on 24 September 1955) is a
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
-born Chinese actress known for her role as Xiaoqing () in the TV series ''
New Legend of Madame White Snake'' and other roles in movies such as ''
Supercop 2
''Supercop 2'' () is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Stanley Tong and starring Michelle Yeoh. It is a spin-off of Jackie Chan's ''Police Story'' film series involving the character Yeoh portrayed in '' Supercop''.
Although Jackie ...
''.
She is also a philanthropist,
polyglot
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, an author, and a singer-songwriter. She has written and performed her own songs such as "Luo Min Ye" () and the movie song "Qing Si Qian Wo Xin" (). She has written the books "Wo de Yeman Jimu" () and "Yi Shuang Fei Wang Guangming de Chibang" (). She is proficient in Japanese, French, English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
Outside the entertainment industry, she is known for her volunteer work and role as a public education figure. Because of her decades of charity work, she has become known as the "mother of angels."
She attended the
University of Macau
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, graduating in 1987 with an MBA. In 1999, she married a Chinese-American businessman named Xin Shangyong (), and in 2008 they adopted a daughter from
Shanxi
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named Lucia.
References
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Living people
1955 births
University of Macau alumni
20th-century Chinese actresses
21st-century Chinese actresses
Chinese philanthropists